Freedom
“Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is …
Category: Waking
The End of Surrender
As with all things, everything on the path comes to an end. A prominent example is forgiveness. As we do our work and look at our resistance to certain emotional experiences, we come to a …
Experience vs Being
A few times recently, the subject of experiences vs being has come up again. Often, people will have profound experiences of higher states of consciousness prior to actual awakening. These experiences are very valuable as …
Empathic Relationship
A few years ago, I met Dr. Judith Orloff after a talk she gave on being Empathic. She’s a psychiatrist and remarkably intuitive. During a Q&A period, she in some cases ignored a persons question, …
Embodiment
Realization or Awakening is not the goal. This is an aspect of the process that’s worth focusing on a little more. In the usual cycle of growth, we have disintegration, growth, integration, and balance. In …
Attention!
If you read any spiritual or new age material, you’re bound to run into ideas like ’emotions fuel desires’ and ‘healing the heart’ and ‘the power of passion’. Including on this blog. Emotions are quite …
Mantra, Mantra
Awhile back I started an article on meditation but it soon became clear this was more like a small book than a blog post. I decided to write on just one aspect that is less …
Why Do I Choose This?
Back on the What do you Want?, I shared Adyashanti’s quote “In the end, you will always do the thing you wanted to do most.” In The Good Story, I touch on how the world …
Dissolutionment
As we climb the ladder of spiritual awakening, the growth cycle has a tendency to speed up and the rules get increasing distinct. Each time there is a major change, the rules of ‘reality’ shift …
Curtains of Mind
Recently here, we’ve talked about the model of life as a movie theater with the observer as projector and the world as the screen. The senses perceive the liveliness and create an image in mind, …
What is the Illusion?
Over on Soul Awakens, Kris raised an important point that needs to be recognized. The illusion of self The illusion of self is not that your existence is an illusion. The illusion is the idea …
The Soul’s Past
When I was reading When the Soul Awakens, they mentioned that past lives become remembered after soul awakening. I had not considered this before but it was true for me and a few others I …